"We're the largest music content provider online. It may be more strategic for us to put less ads on a search page for outside partners and put more distribution to our music properties on that search page. We can monetize the music traffic and a different part of AOL services with display ads."

"[The deal] doesn't just have to be good for the search part of the business. There are other things in the search deal that we may or may not trade off for search money."

We've reached out to Google and will update the post if the company chooses to comment.